Artwork of the Week!! Sun, June 23, 2024 is by Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020): 'Mayan artifact'; ink drawing on paper; 1960.
Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, June 23, 2024. By Guatamalan artist Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020). ?
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(Untitled - Mayan artifact) is a drawing in ink by Guatamalan-born artist Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020). The image and paper measures 11-1/2 x 8-7/8 inches. The drawing was done on July 7, 1960 and is signed, dated, and annotated "7/60" and anotated "NY" in ink in the lower left corner. The work is collaged to a sheet of ivory wove paper that measures 13-1/2 x 11-1/8 inches. The gallery inventory number for this unique drawing is 23191. This drawing by artist Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020) is available from the gallery for purchase. Contact the gallery for any condition reports or other questions. ?
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In the 1950s Abularach spent several years studying pre-Colombian architecture and artifacts at the Museo Nacional de Arqueologia in Guatemala, culminating in an exhibition of drawings in 1959 at the Pan-American Union's Visual Arts Unit in New York, where he'd moved the year prior to study at the Art Students League. The show highlighted his deftly combined draftsmanship and fine art training to produce tightly cross-hatched, fluid biomorphic shapes that relied solely on shadow and light to take form.
The success of this exhibition brought him a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1960 he exhibited at the Art Insitute of Chicago. This drawing was likely done in preparation for one such show, while living and studying in New York City. Abularach began to explore surrealism and figurativism as applied to the MesoAmerican world of his youth. His later work from the 1960s through 1980s is characterized by the dramatic representation of the human eye, a subject he felt allowed him to explore light and shadows, using all media, something he continued for almost 20 years. In the late 1980s he began to focus his interest on the landscape.
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